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Kernel Patching to Fix Audio Socket Electrical Damage

LinuxC ProgrammingElectronics

Laptop speakers stopped working. Only the right channel of the
headphones remains. But using a very old driver made the speakers
work. Turns out electrical damage from an attached sound system broke
the headphone detection. The operating system was faithfully turning
off the amplifier. Software fix to the rescue
... Update: a remastered patch for
alsa-driver-1.0.20.